Peds or Adult ER?

[Caroline Ronsivalle]

I am a nursing student about to graduate and I am starting to apply to jobs! I know I want to be in the ER, and I have been planning on adult. But I enjoyed my peds rotation. Also, my eventual goal is to become a flight nurse- so I will likely need peds and adult CC experience. I am trying to decide where I should focus my applications- adult or peds. I know some hospitals have combined, but I am planning on moving to Chicago or Baltimore- and those big hospitals have them separate. Thoughts? 

[FiremedicMike, BSN, RN, EMT-P]

Caroline Ronsivalle said:

I am a nursing student about to graduate and I am starting to apply to jobs! I know I want to be in the ER, and I have been planning on adult. But I enjoyed my peds rotation. Also, my eventual goal is to become a flight nurse- so I will likely need peds and adult CC experience. I am trying to decide where I should focus my applications- adult or peds. I know some hospitals have combined, but I am planning on moving to Chicago or Baltimore- and those big hospitals have them separate. Thoughts? 

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Adult.  The majority of your critical care transfers will be adult and most of the emergency care concepts (as they relate to critical care transfers) that you'll learn on the adult population will prepare you for the rare peds case you'll get.   
 

On top of that, many areas have critical care teams that only do peds cases and are sent on the peds flights, so you can avoid those companies  if you choose.